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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Inequality has 'female face' in India, women's unpaid work worth 3.1% of GDP: Oxfam

Inequality has 'female face' in India, women's unpaid work worth 3.1% of GDP: Oxfam

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published Published on Jan 23, 2019   modified Modified on Jan 23, 2019
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Globally, the unpaid work done by women is worth 43-times Apple’s annual turnover, according to the Oxfam report

Davos: Unpaid work done by women across the globe amounts to a staggering $10 trillion a year, which is 43 times the annual turnover of the world’s biggest company Apple, an Oxfam study said on Monday.

In India, the unpaid work done by women looking after their homes and children is worth 3.1% of the country’s GDP. Women spend 312 minutes per day in urban areas and 291 minutes per day in rural areas on such unpaid care work, it added. In comparison, men spend only 29 minutes in urban and 32 minutes in rural areas on unpaid care work.

The report, released by the international rights group before the start of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in this Swiss ski resort town, also said women and girls are hardest hit by rising economic inequality, including in India.

Oxfam said inequality has a “female face” in India, where women are less likely to have paid work when compared to men, while even among the richest there are only nine women in the country’s 119-member billionaires club.

The paid work women do bring them less earnings as compared to men due to the existing wage gap and therefore households that rely primarily on female earners tend to be poorer, it said, referring to the country’s gender pay gap at 34%.

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The Hindu, 21 January, 2019, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/inequality-has-female-face-in-india-womens-unpaid-work-worth-31-of-gdp-oxfam/article26048261.ece?utm_campaign=socialflow&fbclid=


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